it's great isn't it?

[MrsMills]

discuss

[moondog]

Can be
Can also be shite
Too many people dream about it without considering the reality of living in places where you can't speak the LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE DON'T CARE TWO HOOTS ABOUT YOU.

i'VE LIVED ABROAD MOST OF MY LIFE (oops) and the older i get,the more I want to be at home in Wales.

[meowmix]

hope so cos I will be after July!

[Rhubarb]

S'alright.

[MrsMills]

I still like looking for rude words on the supermarket shelves

[moondog]

Ah yes.
There is a shopping complex called 'Pissy' in my town in Turkey.
I also liked thedrink 'Pschitt' when i lived in France.

[moondog]

Where are you MrsMills?
Where are you going meow?

[MrsMills]

We have 'plopp', which is a chocolate bar. Love that one.

[P45]

Wouldn´t live in England for anything. Always shocked by the state of things when I go home on holiday. Education and health facilities are shocking, the food is poor and all people talk about is their boring houses and how hard they work and how badly done to they are. You can´t go out at night because of the drunks and disgusting behaviour on the streets.

Living abroad (in my experience) is a thoroughly civilised and happy lifestyle, even if language problems may raise their heads occasionally.

[cod]

i think i may have to shoot oyu all

you all winge back in the end

[MrsMills]

I am in Stockholm, and it's bloody lovely today.

[Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads]

Oh I loved living abroad. Would love to do it again, but won't. Alas.

[moondog]

P45,lol,you speak as if 'abroad' is one particular place!
Where were/are you?
How about you Jimjams??

[meowmix]

we're going to the Gulf - Qatar to be exact. So excited/terrified/panic stricken.

[P45]

I´m on to my 3rd country in Western Europe. And speak 4 languages, which definitel helps. I`ve met very few expats who don´t much prefer it on the continent so I´m not alone here!

How are things in Turkey? DO u speak Turkish?

[collision]

Wouldnt live abroad again for all the tea in china!

UK is the place to be.

In Italy the

beauracracy was hell
tax was 40%
nothing to do in winter
really really hot in summer
The Tuscans were hard work
Very small minded people in our village
Central heating was sooooo expensive


Never ever ever again. i love England.

[cod]

adn all thos beans collision

i aheva lived abroad
i miss hte ocmmon cultural refs
even if oyu are really fluent you cnat get them

[moondog]

I like Turkey.
We live in a v v remote part-only about 20 foreigners in a city of over a million,so no expat scene,which is a good thing!
I can get by,I had lessons for over a year.

[Flum]

bit of a wide topic.

I mean living in Iraq is probably a bit rubbish but Cayman Islands maybe bit better.

I lived in Greece for 6 years and loved it, mostly. Always nice to come home though.

[collision]

too many beans!!!!

And the sense of humour and having a laugh is missing abroad,

people just didnt get me!! and I am soooo funny!!

[moondog]

British have the best sense of humour in the world.
I so miss it when i am away.

[collision]

exactly MD.

Do you get back to the UK much?

[P45]

Got to disagree Moondog, you prefer the British soh because you understand it. It´s just difficult to tap into the foreign sense of humours. I love having English people to stay because we just click and have a real howl.

[moondog]

No P45
I've spent more time with foreigners than Brits,and still it's the best.

[moondog]

Yes collision.
In UK now.
Go back and forth 4/5 times a year.

[Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads]

I was in Japan Moondog. I'd love to live in Scandinavia for a bit, not anywhere hot. But it won't happen. Ah well dreaming is good for the soul.